Schools should be ‘100%’ open this fall, White House says
WASHINGTON — All schools should be open for in-person instruction for the 2021-22 school year, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday, rejecting concerns about the Delta variant…
World leaders buck health experts on mixing COVID-19 vaccines as fears over Delta variant grow
BARCELONA — German Chancellor Angela Merkel did it. So did Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Italian Premier Mario Draghi. They bucked the advice of health agencies and mixed their…
Florida, Missouri and Texas now account for 40% of new coronavirus cases in U.S.
WASHINGTON — Just three states are now driving the pandemic in the United States, as the divide between vaccinated and unvaccinated regions of the country becomes ever more stark, as…
Keep calm and get vaccinated, Biden says of ‘breakthrough’ COVID cases
WASHINGTON — Coronavirus rates are rising and masks are returning in some areas, but President Biden had a simple message on Wednesday evening: Get your coronavirus vaccine and, having done…
‘If anybody is lying here, Senator, it is you’
WASHINGTON — Certainties may be rare in Washington these days, but blowups between Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top medical adviser to President Biden, have become…
COVID comes to the White House
WASHINGTON — On July 4, President Biden declared “our independence from a deadly virus.” But the virus had other ideas, as has frequently been the case throughout the pandemic.…